The Center For Innovation, an international school fair featuring "learning with a dormitory" from 2022:1 on January 16, 13, "The participating schools are amazing! Domestic boarding schools gather at the Tokyo Station Maru Building. ! ”Will be held at the Tokyo Campus of the Nagoya University of Commerce Business School in the Tokyo Station Maru Building.

 Boarding school is a general term for schools that have dormitory facilities and support students 24 hours a day. While prestigious overseas branch schools in Japan, including Harrow Appi School, which is scheduled to open in August 2022, are attracting new attention in international education, boarding schools are opening one after another in Japan.

 There are three main reasons why boarding schools are increasing in Japan.First, the number of preschools that provide childcare and early childhood education in English is increasing.There are more than 3 gardens nationwide, and the need for tens of thousands of graduates to continue learning in English is increasing year by year.
In addition, the declining birthrate has increased the cost of education per person, and more and more families have no brothers or sisters and want to improve their communication skills with students of the same age at schools with dormitories, and to go on to universities in Japan and overseas. There is.
Furthermore, there are changes in the destinations of wealthy people.Wealthy people have been enrolled in prestigious boarding schools in the United States, the United Kingdom and Switzerland for some time, but in recent years, celebrities and new wealthy people have been moving from taking entrance exams to prestigious national public and private schools in Japan to aiming for an international school with dormitories. It's coming out.

 International High School (Nisshin City, Aichi Prefecture), Hello International School Abi Japan (scheduled to open in August 2022 in Abi Kogen, Iwate Prefecture), Malvern College Tokyo (opened in September 8 in Kodaira City, Tokyo) , UWC ISAK Japan (Karuizawa Town, Nagano Prefecture), ICT International College of Technology (Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture, Hakuba City), Hakuba International School (opened in September 2023 in Hakuba Village, Kita Azumi County, Nagano Prefecture), Kamiishi International School (Hiroshima Prefecture) Kamiishi Kogen Town, Kamiishi-gun), Infinity International Academy, and Crimson Academy will participate.

 On the day of the event, presentations and individual consultations will be held at each school.Opening talk by Tomoko Sano "Elite Education'Ultimate Joker'! What are the human resources that a school with a dormitory can bring up?" And talk session by HLAB co-founder COO Shuta Takada and U Share COO Takafumi Inoue "Experience growing up in a dormitory that creates a variety of goals" is also planned.
Participation in the venue is limited, and you can also participate online at the Zoom webinar.

Reference: [Center For Innovation] International School Fair Held at Tokyo Station Marunouchi Building on Sunday, January 1

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